Be Kind Quotes

Tact is kind; diplomacy is useful; euphemism is harmless and sometimes entertaining

I wanted to be a writer. I still want to be a prose writer. I feel I am more temperamentally suited to that kind of life, although there are things I still want to do with music.

Oh, I wish I could tell you I was a Mr. Fix-It, but I am not that kind of guy. I get frustrated so easily.

I love acting, and so whenever I get the opportunity to act, I'm happy. I'm easy to please when it comes to that kind of stuff. I don't know what I'd do without it.

Kind of like love before first sight.” and “Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor. More like killer bees.

Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.

There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.

Pain in all its forms is also a message, a kind of distress signal to our hearts and minds. There are times when it's really important to tune into that message and just listen to it.

I feel like I have to do some promotion to let the people know that the records are out there; but I kind of like the idea that it's my work that does the talking rather than me.

There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.

Catherine the Great, like others of her kind, did not succeed in imparting greatness to her descendants.

I don't want it to appear that I'm standing up and saying I'm the expected one. That's a dangerous, ego-driven kind of thing.

Saying youre from Texas makes you kind of proud.

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

I liked Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, and that is the kind of character that I would like to have played. That would have been more in tune with who I really was.

I did. I still do. It's kind of grown to a "Ren and Stimpy" kind of lab, which is fun.

The thing I love most about going on vacation is that I get to leave behind any kind of schedule. My entire life is scheduled from morning to night, and when I'm on vacation, there is no schedule.

The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn't matter what mood you're in or what kind of a year you've had; it's a fresh start.

The kind of evidence that was put before the jurors led to less-than-rational decision-making. I think that juries are composed of good people who can be misled.

I had always been the kind of boy who was quick to laugh and quick to cry.

The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly or mean.

The kind of poetry I write, lyric poetry, I think is really concerned with intimacy, with mystery. That needn't be religious mystery, there are mysteries to do with everyday life.

We live in a society where manhood is all about conquering and violence. And what we don't realize is that ultimately that kind of manhood ultimately kills you.

I have one of those real old American built cars. The kind that just PUNCHES through accidents.

I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to tell it. It's the only way I know how to write.

When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.

I attract a different kind of boy when my hair's red. I get more quality men - like a more thoughtful, nerdy dude.

God damn it, you've got to be kind.

Soccer is my first love. Ive been playing since I was 4 years old. I traveled the world doing it. I broke my leg when I was 16 or 17, and acting kind of filled the void.

A truly Suppressive Person or group has no rights of any kind and actions taken against them are not punishable.

Japanese is a baby talk - very, very hard to read, very, very, easy to talk. ... A very faint kind of language.

Working with younger artists kind of tests your judgment. You're not always right, but when you are, it's exciting.

[Christians] practiced moderation and chastity in marriage, for example, and Galen was puzzled at how they were able to do so. His comments are a kind of back-handed compliment, I suppose.

I think Rodney Stark makes a substantial contribution to the study of early Christianity in posing the kinds of questions that he pursues (which reflect his social-science background).

I remember turning in my first assignment in elementary school using the computer and the teachers were kind of confused that I had printed it.

No one starts playing my kind of music to make a fortune. But I do want to keep doing what I do and I do want to continue selling records. And I would, eventually, quite like some money.

I'm crazy enough to believe in taking chances in every way, in making choices and gambling with your life. That's the kind of gambling I believe in.

It’s a terrible thing to hate your mother. But I didn’t always hate her. When I was a child, I only kind of disliked her.

I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.

The ability to know one’s limitations, to recognize the bounds of one’s own comprehension—this is a kind of knowing that approaches wisdom.

I can't do movies where you start thinking "Where's the commercial appeal? How are we going to market this?" It's not that kind of party.

When I look at her, my heart brightens up. She's that kind of girl.

That's kind of my goal: to build a new row of meaningful tones.

Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.

It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you.

Throughout the day I often ask myself, Could I fall asleep right now? and the answer is always a resounding yes.

It's not instant composing; it's not following any kind of a formula. All you do is hear music in your head and reproduce it.

I went to Paris in 1989 when the Americans didn't quite know what to do with me at first. Now, all those years later, it's kind of the same story. Not the same scenario, but kind of the same story.

I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.

People have been kind enough to compare me to Celine Dion, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston. I think it's amazing that they even put my name in the same sentence.